USER GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
RECYCLABILITY FRAMEWORK
PACKAGING FATE Required Pathway Criteria
Are end markets for the package sufficient?
Explanatory Information THE JOURNEY
THE CIRCULARITY COUNCIL
MATERIAL COALITIONS
For a package to be considered recyclable, it must have a viable path to becoming something else. In other words, there must be demand from an end market. The Framework assesses end market sufficiency based on the presence of key attributes or variables of any material/ format combination.
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PATHWAY TO CIRCULARITY
RECYCLABILITY FRAMEWORK
The draft attributes for evaluating an end market are: National/Regional Scale (reach of market); Export Reliance (dependency on export markets to other continents); Market and Buyer Diversity (variety and number of end user applications and buyers); Demand/ Supply (balance between demand and marketplace supply); Material Circularity (likelihood of the material being made into another package or product that has the potential to be recycled again); MRF Value (marketplace value of material generated from a MRF); and Quality/Yield (yield of recyclable material [versus contaminants or loss] from the package during processing). The Circularity Council is developing the method to appropriately apply a weighting to these attributes.